Wire-cloth holder



(No Model.) I

WI gA-lv WIRE GLOTHHOLDER.

Patented Apr; 17, 1888. 4

ATTORNEYS.

To all whom. it may concern.-

"UNIT D STzrrns ILLIAM TEA,

WIRE-CLOTH HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters on CLYDE, OHIO.

Patent naealfz'oe,aatea'A rn 17, 1888. v

Application filed January 30,1888. Serial No. 262,383. (No model.)

-Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. TEA, of Olyde, in the county of Sandusky and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Wire- Oloth Holder, of which the'following is a full, clear, and exact description.

.The object of this invention is to provide a rack upon which rolls of wire-cloth may be compactly stored, the rolls being so arranged that any number of yards or feet of said clothv may be quickly measured off from the rolls,- and the surplus material drawnfrom the rolls rewound thereupon.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved wirecloth holder. Fig. 2 is an end view thereof, and Fig. 3 is a detail View illustrating thecon: struction of one of the springs.

- In constructing such a rack or holderas the one illustrated in the drawings above referred to, I provide a frame which is made up of two end posts or standards, 10, that are formed with bases .11, the upppr ends of the posts on standards being connected by a cross-bar, 12, other cross bars, 13, being bolted to the standards, as shown in thedrawings. 'Iothe ends of the bars 12 and 13 there are connected brackets 14, which serve as supports for the journals 15 of rollers 16,.which said rollers are provided with crank-arms 17, that are connected to the right-hand ends of the rollers, as shown in the drawings. The rollers 16 are of different length, the longest one being that connected to the cross-bar 12, while the shortest is that shown at A. Above the cross-bars 13, I an range other bars,20, which are connected to the standards 10 by screws 2l, which. pass through screweyes 22,1that are secured to the bars, and to each end of these bars 20, I connect an outwardlyextending arm, 23, the ends of said arms being bent upward and then downward to form sockets '24, which receive the Above the cross-bar 12there ismounteda bar, I

20, said bar being connected to the crossbar ranged so that thearms 23 of the bar20 are diameter, which is the diameter of the rollers I 2 5. Whenthe cloth is received in the rolls, as [above described, the supporting-rollerwithin v the cloth is removed and a roller, 25,. of "ap propriate length, is inserted, afterwhich' the roller is returned to its position beneath the 5 5 then acting to throw the outer layer of wirecloth against the roller 16, and when th'ecloth bent portion 24 of the arms 23,.the springs'26 is so placed it will be seen that by turning .the crank-arm 17 in the proper directiona lyamount of cloth may be woundoff from the roll,

and the desiredlength havingbeen cut from i the roll the surplus'may ,be rewoundtthereupon.

' Instead of transferring theroll' of cloth di f:

rectly to the roller 25, the free end of the-roll of. wire-cloth may be tacked to a roller, 16, of ap-.

propriate length, and theroller 16 then turned so as to wind'the cloth thereon. a

\ Havingthus described my invention, I claim I as new and desire to'secure by Letters Patent-.-

1. In a wire-cloth holder, the combination, v

with a supportingframe and a roller journaled in brackets projectingfrom the said frame, of Y I I a 'pivoted'and .springrpressed barabove the said roller, outwardly projeoting arms securedbrackets, of a pivoted and spring-pressed bar,

'arms secured to saidbar and having their outer ends formed'with sockets, and a roller held if above and in engagement'with the first-named roller by the engagement of the socketsof the said arms with its journals, substantially as herein described. I 3. Ina wire-cloth holder, the combination,

' with the supporting-frame provided with crossto the saidbars, and-a roller removablyheld arms, substanbars 12, brackets 14, secured to said cross-bars, having their journals in the sockets of said and rollers 16, journaled in said brackets and arms, substantially as herein shown and deprovided with crank-handles 17, 0f the crossscribed.

bars 20, pivoted to the frame, the springs 26, I WILLIAM A. TEA. secured to the said cross-bars 13 and 20, the Witnesses: arms 23, secured to the crossbars 20 and pro- WILLIAM M. GILES,

vided with the sockets 24, and the rollers 25, G. S. DEWEY. 

